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Sunday Supper
The setup
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People have lives, Mark!
How about breakfast here every morning at 6 a.m.?
I'll befriend a large, simple man, and at the end of the story, I'll shoot him in the back of the head.
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Friends relax on the sofa after a lovely evening until Mark floats the idea of doing it every Sunday. Each guest has a gentle excuse, and his eagerness curdles into embarrassment. He storms upstairs, then comes back down dressed for the road with a bindle and a packed suitcase, announcing he is running away for good. The others scramble to talk him out of it while his wife and friends uncover increasingly alarming details of his past escape attempts, and every compromise he offers only makes the commitment bigger. He leaves with a dramatic farewell, and the guests are left wondering whether they will ever see him again.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Mark
Oh, my God. Oh, wow, you guys. This has just been such a lovely evening. I don't want it to end.
- 00:09
Guest
Aw, me either. Yeah, this has been a delight.
- 00:12
Wife
I know. Mark and I always love having you guys over.
- 00:15
Mark
Yes. This has been amazing. Yes. Guys. Am I crazy? We should do this, like, every Sunday?
- 00:26
Guest
Uh, what do you mean?
- 00:28
Mark
This. Us, every Sunday, right? dinner, us, Sunday supper. Every Sunday, Sunday supper, right? Let's do it every week, Sunday supper.
- 00:43
Denise
Well, that'd be nice, but we'd have to get a sitter.
- 00:46
Guest
No way, babe, those teens drive a hard bargain. Totally. Totally.
- 00:54
Mark
No, totally, yeah, that makes sense.
- 00:58
Guest
Yeah, plus we usually do dinner with my parents on Sundays.
- 01:02
Wife
How are your parents?
- 01:04
Mark
Right. Totally. You got to do that. Yeah, just, it wouldn't work. Yeah. I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I just got excited about Sunday supper.
- 01:19
Mark
But, yeah, like, it wouldn't work, right? People have lives, Mark! Bleah!
- 01:27
Mark
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but seriously, guys, don't worry. It's fine.
- 01:40
Denise
Is he okay?
- 01:42
Wife
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's fine. He's just, you know, he gets himself worked up about Sunday supper is all.
- 01:48
Guest
Well, he seemed really heartbroken.
- 01:50
Wife
Oh, no, no, no. He'll be fine. He's a tough little guy.
- 01:54
Mark
I have an announcement. I am running away.
- 02:03
Denise
I'm sorry what's happening
- 02:05
Mark
what's happening is I'm running away Denise I'm running away and never coming back because I'm embarrassed I got too excited about Sunday supper and no one else wanted to do Sunday supper
- 02:17
Guest
you have to run away for that yeah yeah mark it's fine we're all having a really nice time still yeah yeah tonight's been been great
- 02:25
Mark
so then we'll do it we'll do Sunday Supper?
- 02:35
Guest
I'm sorry, we just can't really...
- 02:37
Guest
Oh, No, look what
- 02:40
Wife
done. You've been too rough with your things, Mark!
- 02:44
Guest
Hey, dude, Dude, what did you pack?
- 02:47
Wife
It's... it's everything from his dress-up box.
- 02:50
Guest
He has a dress-up box?!
- 02:52
Wife
It's not what you think. It's to play make-believe.
- 02:56
Denise
I've never seen Mark like this. Has he ever run away before?
- 03:00
Wife
Yeah, and last week he was ordering pizza, and he said I love you to the guy on the phone. He got so embarrassed that that night he tried to hop a freight train, and then he got scared because somebody offered him crack.
- 03:12
Guest
Well, maybe we can do a different day.
- 03:17
Mark
Can we do Saturday supper?
- 03:20
Guest
Our son has basketball. No! No! Mark! No! Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark, you keep a jug of gasoline behind your couch? Mark, stop it! Stop drinking gasoline!
- 03:36
Guest
Yeah, yeah, maybe we could do something that's less of a commitment.
- 03:41
Mark
How about breakfast here every morning at 6 a.m.?
- 03:44
Guest
Feels like more of a commitment, Mark. Mark! No! Mark! Mark! Stop it.
- 03:52
Mark
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I gotta go.
- 03:55
Wife
No, Mark, you can't leave me. Come on.
- 04:00
Mark
I don't belong in this world, sugar. I belong out there. on the tracks
- 04:07
Wife
where will you go what do you do
- 04:10
Mark
I'll befriend a large simple man and at the end of the story I'll shoot him in the back of the head but it'll be the right thing to do cuz he has rabies
- 04:23
Guest
I think you got your references mixed up there mark
- 04:28
Mark
I'll always love you but now I gotta go cuz I'm embarrassed I got too too excited for Sunday Supper and nobody else wanted to do Sunday Supper Goodbye.
- 04:47
Denise
Wow, do you guys think we'll ever see him again
- 04:51
Wife
I hope not Because he is a burden on my life he belongs out there a free soul on the tracks the
- 05:06
Mark
neighbor's dog was outside and I got scared
The rabbit hole continues
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